So I installed the Java addon. But where is it?

That's tough luck then because for any $DISPLAY to work properly, you'd need the X-Windows system with all or at least most of it's libraries installed on the ReadyNAS. I don't think there's enough room on the system partition for that.

-Stefan

Is there not a web interface for serviio to avoid having to use X-Windows?

Haven't seen any but didn't look too closely either.

-Stefan

Cool. Now the question is whether the app itself uses X11 libs or not. Maybe I'm going to test that later but currently I prefer working on Plex ;)

-Stefan

Hi Stefan,
Sorry for the late reply. Been tied up here with house stuff :(
First off, Just want to say I really appreciate the help you have given me so far.

I got serviio up and running using a web ui. Pretty impressive it is too. It works brilliantly and its packed full of features not to mention that it does transcoding on the fly.
For some odd reason, ReadyDLNA has problems in my setup. It works but it pauses for long periods causing the NAS NIC to hang during the pause. I have tried everything to figure out what the hell is going on but to no avail. Before I got the Pro 6 I used MediaLink off my Mac to serve up DLNA to my TV. This used the same network, switch, router, etc and worked perfectly. Convinced the problem is in the ReadyDLNA software or its dependencies, I went looking for an alternative. I hear that Twonky has issues but then found Serviio....and its free ;) So far, after watching 3 movies last night 1 of which was transcoded MP4, another transcoded MKV and the other an MPEG4 file (untranscoded), all played perfectly, never once hung up. During the 2nd movie I deliberately copied a 100Gb tar file to the NAS from my Mac to see if would cause performance problems. Nope. Worked a dream. So I am fairly convinced my DLNA problems are sorted.

Another neat thing about servio is that it has profiles for rendering devices and it supports my Panasonic Viera TV. Also, you can select to display the order and type of items on the rendererd list such as Titles, date added, date watched, and so on. You an even elect to list Acors, Directors, Producers and more. Really cool.

I had to create some scripts specifically to run it on the ReadyNAS. Such as init.d script etc and currently I have serviio running as root which is not too secure.
Anway, the next thing to do is to package this lot up.

Things I am still learning to do and could do with some help (if you dont mind that is):
I want to install a debbotstraped dev environment as you suggest. I see that aptitude is not installed. ANy idea what the package is for this?
I guess this one will be answered when I get to frontview development, but how does one configure an apache service so that the serviio web server is started as user "seriviio"? I have added a user serviio with intentions of trying to get the serviio service running without root privileges. But in order to do that I need to get apache to run it for me (possibly with apache privelges).
Thousand questions.....I hope I dont bug you too much.
Cheers and thanks again
Berny

Somehow I dont trust aptitude. So I did apt-get install debootstrap
Go it.
But now how to download the root file system.
The instructs say:
debootstrap --arch i386 lenny $CHROOTDIR http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
I changed lenny to etch but there is no etch dist on this ftp site.
Hmm...what to do...

try http://archive.debian.org/... instead.

-Stefan

I can see it in http://archive.debian.org/backports.org/dists/etch-backports
but....

MainStore:/c/buildenv# debootstrap --arch i386 etch $BUILDENV http://archive.debian.org/backports.org/dists/etch-backports
I: Retrieving Release
E: Failed getting release file http://archive.debian.org/backports.org/dists/etch-backports/dists/etch/Release

seems like debotstrap tacks "dists/etch/Release" on the end of the MIRROR URL and it fails.

debootstrap --arch i386 etch $BUILDENV http://archive.debian.org/backports.org

-Stefan